2 Quotes & Sayings By Aron Gurwitsch
Aron Gurwitsch was a psychoanalyst and one of the founders, with Melanie Klein, of object-relations theory. His work was focused on human beings as containers of energy and on the need for those containers to be emptied. In his view, a dangerous element is enclosed within a person's unconscious mind. This dangerous element is linked to a person's internalized object relation—the "other" whom an infant internalizes at the age of about eighteen months
The development of an individual depends upon the child's ability to understand and integrate this "other."